[Cialug] Can a dual-headed graphics card appear as 2 virtual consoles?

[Colin Burnett]

Been a while but I saw someone setup two monitors, two keyboards, and
two mice to run two completely separate X sessions so one machine can
be usable by two people.  You could see if there's anything there of
interest for what you want to do.


Colin

On Feb 18, 2008 12:39 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:
> I recently acquired a second monitor for my machine (running Debian),
> that i'll refer to as A and B. Both monitors are plugged into the same
> graphics card, and getting them to act as one wide desktop was quite
> easy. However, i'd rather they act as 2 separate virtual consoles.
> Right now the machine effectively has 7 virtual consoles. 1-6 are
> text-mode only and only display on monitor A. 7 is X Windows and spans
> both A and B. Is it possible to make 1-7 appear on A, and have a
> separate X session on B as console 8?
>
> So then if i hit ctrl-alt-F7 the keyboard/mouse will control X running
> on monitor A, and when i hit ctrl-alt-F8 the keyboard/mouse will switch
> to be controlling a separate X session on monitor B.